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Buckle up, Saunders is gonna blow your mind right out of your butt

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

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I heard about this book on my beloved podcast, Literary Disco, as they gushed about Saunders, both in general as an acclaimed short form writer, and for this, his debut novel. It tells the real story of the tragic death of Abraham Lincoln’s young son Willie, but veers into the extraordinary as Willie is in a sort of limbo, surrounded by fantastical and verbose ghosts. He is visited by Lincoln in the graveyard, hence the title, and is struggling with whether to stay in this in between place, or move forward to the unknown. I read this in audio format, […]

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6/2/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:23 |

This was a book? I read it. I liked it?

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

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There’s been a lot of talk about Lincoln in the Bardo over the past 18 months or so. It won a lot of awards, for sure. I finally got it from the library and I read it. And I have no idea, honestly, if I liked it or not. I did? There’s a lot going on here. Abraham Lincoln’s youngest son, Willie, has died and been laid to rest in a cemetery in Georgetown. Lincoln is mad with grief and spends the better part of the night after the funeral sitting in the cemetery, mourning his son. Meanwhile, Willie’s spirit […]

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3/10/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:16 |

Experimental af and I loved it

Lincoln In The Bardo by George Saunders

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When I was home for Christmas, I took the opportunity to extol to my mother the virtues of my local public library and its available online system for ebooks. I demonstrated by showing her my hold list and, as mothers are wont to do, she had comments on several of my selections. My mom is also a vociferous reader and I do greatly value her opinion, but when she described Lincoln In The Bardo as “weird”, she didn’t mean it in a good way and bless her but she was wrong. It’s weird in the best way. Lincoln In The Bardo is […]

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2/12/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:14 |

‘Lincoln in the Bardo’ Is a Brilliant Novel, But Is It Good?

'Lincoln in the Bardo' by George Saunders

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Lincoln in the Bardo is an “experimental novel” that actually took home the 2017 Man Booker Prize, and it really is the kind of book that critics would love. It’s brilliantly written. It’s smart, and funny, and it is full of pathos, and the premise is brilliant: Basically, the book grew out of a story that Saunders heard about how Abraham Lincoln would return to the crypt of his son Willie after he died of typhoid fever to hold the body. The book is primarily told from the point of view of a bunch of ghosts. I don’t know exactly […]

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1/12/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:5 |

This year’s surprise 5-star book

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

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Guys, I am not going to lie. This novel knocked me over in ways I was not expecting. I had resisted reading Lincoln in the Bardo for months, because I was not sure about how good it would actually be. But when it won the Man Booker Prize (still plenty of shade for the committee to open it up to Americans; guys, we DO have the National Book Award, you know), I caved and put in a library hold. The first twenty pages made me SO MAD. I was like, WHY ARE THERE WEIRD NAMES HERE WHAT IS HAPPENING. And […]

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11/4/2017 's CBR9 Review No:130 |

Amusement with a Capital “A”

CivilWarLand in Bad Decline by George Saunders

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In the six stories and one novella that make up his debut collection, the inimitable Saunders pokes and prods at the nagging difficulties of living an ordinary life in an utterly insane world. The protagonists of these stories are people who for the most part just want to go about their day and provide for their families without running into too much trouble, but the zaniness and frenetic pace of American life, recognizable as a fractured possible future version of our own, complicate their lives and inevitably involve them in death, destruction and moral quandaries. In the title story, which […]

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4/1/2017 's CBR9 Review No:12 |

A Long Short Story

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

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George Saunders’s short stories are perhaps the most celebrated in America today, and rightly so. They are fascinatingly strange and full of unique insights. They remind me of Kurt Vonnegut, only weirder. In light of this there was no way I wasn’t going to rush out and buy his highly-anticipated first novel on the day it came out. True to form, Lincoln in the Bardo is just about the weirdest idea for a novel I’ve ever encountered. After the death of his beloved son Willie, they young boy’s soul finds itself stuck in an in-between state, unwilling to give up […]

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2/28/2017 's CBR9 Review No:9 |

Animal Farm meets Hitchhiker’s Guide; Hilarity Ensues

The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil by George Saunders

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In an effort to not make this review longer than the book itself, I will just say that The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil is a story that could have been written by the love child of George Orwell and Douglas Adams. George Saunders’ flawless writing will remind readers of Adam’s Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, but his themes echo the sly political satire of Orwell. Mrs Smith Reads The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil by George Saunders

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